Each mind a kingdom
Subtitle: American women, sexual purity, and the New Thought movement, 1875-1920
By: Beryl Satter.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910.; New Thought -- History.; Women -- Religious life -- United States.; Christian Science -- United States -- History.; Twelve-step programs -- History.; Sex role -- United States -- History.; Feminism -- United States -- History.; Sex customs -- United States -- History.; United States -- Church history.; United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918.
Description: "Each Mind a Kingdom offers the first in-depth history of the enormously popular turn-of-the-century New Thought movement. Most historians have characterized New Thought as the popular ideology of twentieth-century capitalism, but this account reanimates the movement's complex early history."--BOOK JACKET.

"This revisionist history demonstrates the centrality of New Thought to the social and political transformations that reshaped American culture at the turn of the century. It explains how a spiritual discourse that combined rigid Victorian gender norms, middle-class reformism, race ideology, and proto-psychology gave rise to wildly popular twentieth-century cults of success. In so doing, it suggests new ways of interpreting the self-help, New Age movements of our own fin de siecle."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-357) and index.